Thanks to all of you for your comments.

I'm pretty sure that what I've got is a reaction to
the Pfizer vaccine. It came on suddenly the day after
I had the 4th booster shot. I'd already suffered the
flu about two weeks previously and had been on anti-
biotics. This is very different. And I am feeling
so tired and sleepy. As well as today suffering from
nausea. But at least the cough's gone.

Anyhow - whatever it is - it's not pleasant. But it's
done, so that's that.

I guess it's still better to have had it, then not.
I only hope that this will be it - for a while at least.

Half sounds like you may have covid Foxy

"headache, and fatigue; a cluster of digestive symptoms with abdominal pain, vomiting" see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symptoms_of_COVID-19

Have you tested your RAT?

Mavers

Hi Maverick,

No I don't have COVID. Yes, I've been tested.
So far so good. Finger-crossed. I am getting better.
Slowly. My husband's fine. He's had no reaction to
Pfizer.

Mavers, you mentioned your family tradition of
standoffishness. My husband is an only child - and
he too has trouble showing emotion. I make up for
it in a big way - being very tactile. My husband is
very self-reliant as well. Which is so good during difficult
times.

Hi Maverick,

Talking about Indigenous people.

I remember the Mia Mia Aboriginal Art Gallery which
operated for 15 years in Westerfolds Park, here
Templestowe, Melbourne. It attracted so many people,
schools, and overseas visitors. It was a magnificent
gallery run by Aboriginal gallery curator Colin
McKinnon-Dodd. It had a cafe as well as the gallery
and was a very busy place.

Then in 2013 it was given a month to vacate by Parks
Victoria. Colin fought tooth and nail for the gallery
to no avail. They moved out the gallery went into
ruin. An old ruined building remains.

Colin died November 20th 2014. Age 55 of cancer.

Shame on Parks Victoria.

Hi Foxy

Good you don't have the dreaded Covid.

"Standoffish" in the sense that we siblings don't communicate as much as average - bout 6 phone calls a year.

Showing feelings is less of I problem for me. I show and swing in feeling quite a bit. Makes me a better conversationist, specially with women, rather than being a stoic male.

Talking about Indigenous people. Of the few I've known heavy smoking with regular coughing and heavy beer drinking have been unfortunately more pronounced than for other categories of folk.

Here's an interesting link on the interplay of "white" and indigenous dot painting http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/arts/are-dot-paintings-traditional-aboriginal-art#:~:text=You'll%20be%20surprised%20to,art%20school%20teacher%2C%20Geoffrey%20Bardon.

Cheers Mavers

Hi Maverick,

Thank you for the history of dot painting. Who says
we can't learn something from OLO.

I've got a few Aboriginal paintings. But not dot
ones. I've got landscape water colours by Ronald Bull.
The dot paintings are interesting. I also taught
young people to paint them during the Storytime sessions
and Book Clubs for schools that I used to run at our
regional municipal libraries. The kids loved it.